In respecting the World Health Organization’s definition of ‘health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’ – then “we should be the loudest and most uncompromising advocates for fairness, for ethics in decision making, of all. We should be fighting hard for action on climate change” – Nabarro.

We closed on a quote from Jiwani’s Memoirs – medicine as a profession provides ‘almost limitless frontiers’ which affords an ‘unparalleled panorama of human condition – its riches, frailties, hubris, and potential.’